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    PLS 33102: Great Books Seminar IV

    Spring 2009

    Professor Affeldt
    Office: 416 Decio Hall
    Office Phone: 631-7655, Home Phone: 339-6945
    Office Hours: M, W, 1:30-3 or by appointment
    E-Mail: [email protected]

    Texts
    Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Penguin
    Bacon: Selected Philosophical Works, Hackett
    Descartes: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Hackett
    Goethe: Faust, Doubleday/Anchor
    Hobbes: Leviathan, Penguin
    Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hackett
    Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Macmillan
    Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population, Norton
    Milton: Samson Agonistes, Harlan Davidson
    Mozart: Don Giovani, EMI Studio (recording) Dover (libretto)
    Pascal: Pensees, Penguin
    Rousseau: Basic Political Writings, Hackett
    Shakespeare: The Tempest, Penguin
    Smith: The Wealth of Nations, Library of America
    Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, St. Martins/Bedford

    These texts have been ordered for PLS Seminar IV at the Hammes Bookstore. In order to
    facilitate our finding passages in class discussions, please purchase or borrow these
    editions.

    Requirements
    • Two short papers (5-7 pages)
    • Weekly class-discussion questions
    • Attendance and participation in discussion
    • Final examination.

    Note on Attendance
    Class will begin promptly at 3:15. At that point you should be present, seated, quiet,
    and with all non-class materials off of the table.
    If you are not present and seated by 3:15 you are late. Two late arrivals for class equal
    one absence. More than two unexcused absences will result in a grade of “F” for the
    course.
    Due Dates
    First Paper: Friday, March 6.
    Second Paper: Wednesday, April 29.

    Note: You are free to submit paper-topic proposals and completed papers prior to these
    deadlines. The only stipulation is that one of your papers must consider a text read in the
    first half of the course and the other a text considered in the second half of the course.
    Extensions will be granted only in exceptional circumstances

    Grades
    Your grade for the course will be determined as follows (but see “Attendance Policy”):
    • Papers 25% each
    • Class participation (including discussion questions) 25%
    • Final exam 25%

    Improvement throughout semester will be taken into account.

    Schedule of Readings (Note: All readings are to be completed by the date listed)
    January 14: Shakespeare, The Tempest
    January 19: Bacon, The New Organon, Preface and Book One
    January 21: Bacon, The New Organon, Book Two, Sections 1-24 and 52
    January 26: Descartes, Discourse on Method
    January 28: Descartes, Meditations, Dedication, Preface, Meditations 1-3
    February 2: Descartes, Meditations, Meditations 4-6
    February 4: Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I
    February 9: Hobbes, Leviathan, Part II (omit 25, 27, 28), Part III ch. 43
    February 11: Milton, Samson Agonistes
    February 16: Pascal, Pensees, Section One, chs. 1-27 (with special attention to 1-17 and
    26-27)
    February 18: Pascal, Pensees, Section Two, chs. 1-11, 21-25, 27-31, Section Four, A
    February 23: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Parts I-II
    February 25: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Parts III-IV
    March 2: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, pp. 1-53
    March 4: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, pp. 53-114

    March 7-15: Mid-Semester Break

    March 16: Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pp. 23-60


    March 18: Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pp. 60-81
    March 23: Smith, Wealth of Nations, Author’s Introduction, Plan of Work, Preamble,
    Book 1, chs. 1-8
    March 25: Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book IV, chs. 1-2, Book V, ch. 1, Parts I, III; Article
    2, Conclusion
    March 30: Kant, Prolegomena, Introduction, Preamble, Part I
    April 1: Kant, Prolegomena, Parts II-III, Conclusion, Solution
    April 6: Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population, chs. 1-4, 9, 14, 16-19
    April 8: Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chs. 1-42

    April 10-13 Easter Holiday

    April 15: Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chs. 43-61


    April 20: Goethe, Faust, Prelude, Prologue, Part I
    April 22: Goethe, Faust, Part II (Act V only)
    April 27: Mozart, Don Giovanni
    April 29: Review, no new reading

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